On Monday we launch our Step Up for Refugees summer fundraiser - a step challenge created to show asylum seekers and refugees that they do not walk alone and that there are people willing [...]
Would you like to set yourself a fitness challenge this August and raise funds for refugees and asylum seekers in the North East? Action Foundation is launching a summer step challenge called Step Up [...]
We are so grateful to everyone who supported the Newcastle City of Sanctuary 'Just the Ticket' crowdfunder earlier this year. As the first tickets are distributed by Action Foundation staff and volunteers, here's an [...]
Curry followed by a drama workshop with the theatre group, Curious Monkey, was on the menu for a group of Action Foundation clients this Refugee Week. The group, mostly made up of learners from [...]
This year the theme of Refugee Week is Healing and a group of refugees and asylum seekers from Action Foundation have been working with Northern Print on an exhibition that will open at BALTIC [...]
Our work here at Action Foundation heavily depends on the commitment and generosity of our dedicated volunteers. In fact we just couldn't deliver the work that we do without them. Last year an amazing [...]
Ian Raby, ESOL coordinator with our Action Language team, is looking forward to meeting the first Ukrainian refugees in Action Foundation's English classes. Here, he gives an update on his friends and former colleagues [...]
Our InterAction Drop-in is not just a place to get advice, it's also somewhere people can make friends over a cuppa and a bite to eat, a welcoming space where those new to the [...]
Ahead of this Saturday's national demonstration in Durham City Centre against the detention of women asylum seekers in Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre, Alison Stancliffe, Julie Ward and Suzanne Fletcher, campaigners with the No to [...]
Action Foundation CEO, Duncan McAuley (above right), is leading a relay team in swimming the English Channel from Dover to Calais in May to raise money for refugees. Last week, we caught up with [...]
